ONE of Bonn's leading foreign policy spokesmen yesterday proposed a German-style "alliance for jobs" for the European Union to create new employment along with the single currency the EU is striving to achieve. An EU employment pact would counter the growing impression that the criteria for economic and monetary union (EMU) in 1999 were a "job killer" to please business, Mr Karl Lamers said in an interview.
Mr Lamers, foreign policy spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats, said this could also help dampen growing resentment abroad against Germany's perceived dominance in European affairs.